1989 was not a good year for Paul "The Modfather" Weller. Having split up his second band The Style Council after being dropped from the label Polydor, he was found himself in the musical wilderness and had to restart all over again from scratch. Weller returned to his hometown Woking and rediscovered his love of 1960s R&B, creating headspace for him to write new material which he would then road-test on a painstaking tour of small clubs and venues around the UK. Releasing his first single "Into Tomorrow" in 1991, initially under the banner of "The Paul Weller Movement", it charted well enough for Go Discs! to offer him a record deal, allowing Weller to release his eponymously titled debut album as a solo artist the following year in 1992. Dropping the previously political lyrics of The Style Council years in favour of more personal themes and inflected with jazz tones influenced by the nascent Acid Jazz scene, this album would mark the beginning of the third, most enduring and arguably most successful phase of Weller's career. On this episode, Tim and Ollie explore the story behind this landmark album, get "on the jazz" and try to answer Weller's question: is our future far?